Avec Books

Books

Church & Community Development:The Church & Community Development|
Human & Religious Factors in Church and Community Work|Churches & Communities|The Parchmore Partnership
Analysing, Consulting & Facilitating:Analysis & Design|Consultancy, Ministry & Mission|Telling Experiences
Consultancy Modes & Models|Small Communities in Religious Life
Approach & Methods:The Non-Directive Approach|Diagrammatic Modelling|Meetings that Work|Working with People for Development
In-Service Training:Avec: Agency & Approach
Archive Catalogue:Avec Archives
Preachers & Preaching: Sustaing Preachers & Preaching
Online autoethnography:My Life, Work and Ministry: Notes from Retirement

Most titles are now out of print and copies are unavailable. The only books that are still available in hard copy are those listed on the Order Form.

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Church and Community Development

	The Church and Community Development: An Introduction George Lovell (1972) Downloadable PDF - 0.8MB More details...
	Human and Religious Factors in Church and Community Work George Lovell (1982) Downloadable PDF - 0.49MB More details...
	Churches and Communities: An Approach to Development in the Local Church George Lovell & Catherine Widdicombe (1978/1986) Downloadable PDF - 3.63MB More details...
	The Parchmore Partnership George Lovell, Garth Rogers & Peter Sharrocks (ed Malcolm Grundy) (1995) Downloadable PDF - 3.31MB More details...

Analysing, Consulting and Facilitating

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Analysis and Design: A handbook for practitioners and consultants in church and community work
George Lovell (1994)

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Consultancy, Ministry and Mission: A handbook for practitioners and work consultants in Christian organizations
George Lovell (2000)

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Telling Experiences: Stories about a transforming way of working with people
George Lovell (ed) (1996)

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Consultancy Modes and Models
George Lovell (2005)

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Small Communities in Religious Life: Making them work
Catherine Widdicombe (2000)

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Approach and Method

	The Non-Directive Approach TR &M Batten (1989) Downloadable PDF - 0.45MB More details...
.	Diagrammatic Modelling: An aid to theological reflection in church and community development work George Lovell (1991) Downloadable PDF - 0.51MB More details...
	Meetings that Work: A practical guide to team working in groups Catherine Widdicombe (2000) Still available from Avec and orderable for the cost of p&p Also now reprinted and available from Lutterworth Press at £21.25 More details...
	Working with People for Development: a Study and Training Manual for Community Workers and Trainers[Nigerian edition] Catherine Widdicombe (2009) Available online as a Word DOC file. Please note the copyright conditions inside the front cover.

In-Service Training

Avec: Agency and Approach
George Lovell (1996)

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Archive Catalogue

Avec Archives: Annotated Catalogue
George Lovell & Catherine Widdicombe (2000)

Downloadable PDF - 0.6MB

Still in print and orderable free

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Preachers & Preaching

Sustaining Preachers and Preaching: A Practical Guide
Lovell, G. and N. G. Richardson (2011). London and New York, T & T Clark.

Not available from Avec. Limited availability elsewhere. Try Waterstones, or Abebooks for second hand, or Bloomsbury for an ebook. Google ISBN 9780567116949

Online autoethnography

My Life, Work and Ministry: Notes from Retirement
George Lovell (2018)

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